Consumers Urged Not to Use Unregulated Solicitors when Drafting Wills

Tue, 11 May 2010

A partner at a Fylde-based law firm has warned consumers to take care when making a will to ensure it is sufficiently comprehensive. Ian Bentley from Blackhurst Budd legal firm has encountered a number of ‘nightmare’ cases whereby clients have sought help after being forced to wait months for their inheritance owing to poorly drafted wills. Clients have also been given poor tax planning advice leaving them with hefty bills to pay in order to receive their inheritance, while in the worst case scenarios, wills have simply vanished or solicitors have made themselves executors of the will allowing them to pocket considerable proportions of clients inheritances.

Mr Bentley is a lawyer who specialises in wills, probate and trusts, and urges consumers not to use unregulated or uninsured will writers in order to avoid unforeseen problems. The body responsible for representing law firms in the UK – the Law Society – has also unveiled worrying practices among solicitors, finding that some law firms advertise low legal fees for drafting a will but the legal costs rise hugely at the end of the process without warning. Moreover, some solicitors were found to have written wills without the necessary training.
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